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March 14th, 2007

Making our mark

This is the name of the walk that the Archbishops are doing in London on March the 24th to mark 200 years since the end of the slave trade. There is a website: makingourmark.org.uk. Today they have put a video on YouTube that is here. Frustratingly we have a long standing engagement in another part of the country on that day so will not be attending.

There are of course a lot of other things going on that relate to this anniversary. Here are some:

There are also a lot of different organisations working for the stopping of modern day slavery, including:

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This is a single Cartoon Blog entry, posted by Dave on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 at 6:13 pm.

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  1. Jaded for Jesus says:

    The British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol will be launching a major exhibition on 23rd April, entitled ‘Breaking the Chains’. It’s the centrepiece of the South West’s 200th anniversary of abolition programme, and will run for two years. For further details, go to http://www.empiremuseum.co.uk . I gather that half a million Africans were transported to the Americas on Bristol-registered ships.

    There’s also going to be a walk of witness in Bath on Sunday 25th March. Why Bath? Well, it’s where William Wilberforce met and married his wife(St Siwthin’s, Walcot), Hannah More (another abolitionist) stage her first play (on an anti-slavery theme) at Bath’s Theatre Royal, and the Wesleys (also heavily involved in abolition) have strong local links. On a much darker note, a son of one of Britain’s wealthiest slave-owning families built a famous folly here: Beckford’s Tower. And that’s where the walk starts, 3pm. All welcome! Check out the Churches Together in Bath website. Sorry that this is a such a long comment…

    March 15th, 2007 at 11:36 am
  2. Dave says:

    Thanks Jaded for Jesus – I have added these links into my post.

    March 15th, 2007 at 11:50 am